How To Add Links From Impact to an Affiliate Marketing Post in WordPress
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00:00Hello, everyone, and welcome back. In this video, I'm going to teach you how to input HTML image code from IMPACT and tracking links from IMPACT into your affiliate marketing post type.
00:22This is normally going to come into play when you've worked down to the item section, so you're going to need a couple of different tabs open to start. We're going to want our post tab open.
00:34You'll want IMPACT open, and you're going to want your document with all of your lovely descriptions, headlines, and product landing pages.
00:44There are two different things that can happen with IMPACT, and usually you can go right to the product landing page and be able to pull the product from the IMPACT product catalog.
00:55But sometimes there are some products that are not in the catalog, so we're also going to walk you through how to do those today in the post type.
01:04So to start, we're going to take the name item, item name, the product name, and put it into the post type, and we're also going to put the description that you've written into the post.
01:20So we'll go into our document here, and we're going to pull the item name for the first one, which we're going to use the iPhone case pop-up fidget.
01:33And we're going to take the description and put it into the description box here.
01:40Make sure you're in the description box, not in the image code.
01:43It looks like Grammarly is giving me some recommendations, so we'll just go ahead and adjust those two.
01:50And then we're going to come down here, and we can actually already put our CTA in, which is that Get It Now Here text.
01:56For this one, we're going to do Get Yours Now.
01:59And I'm going to put Get Yours Now from Light in the Box because that is the partner that we are working with for this item.
02:10Okay, so now that we've got all the pieces that we know, now we can go and grab the image code from the product catalog and the tracking link.
02:20So we're going to need to go back to our document, our Word doc, and open up the link for the item.
02:28So this is the product landing page.
02:31You can also take a SKU code.
02:34You don't just have to take the item name here.
02:37For this one, though, I'm just going to show you what it would look like with the item name.
02:40So we're going to go and pull just a little bit of it.
02:43You don't have to take the full thing because sometimes that can make the Impact Server not know what you're looking for.
02:48So we're going to come here, enter your home page on Impact, and we're going to click on the Products tab at the top.
02:56And that takes you to the product catalog.
03:00So in the product catalog, there are a couple different ways that you can kind of narrow down your search.
03:06To start, we're going to input the item name that we just copied from the brand partner and click Search.
03:15And we're also going to hone in on that particular brand.
03:18So I can actually come in over here on the left where it says brand and type in light in the box and get only light in the box items.
03:27This can be really helpful for places where they have duplicate products and you're not sure which one to use.
03:35So we can see that here's the image, and there's a couple other ones over here too.
03:40So we could actually do any of these.
03:43If you want to be matching it up exactly, we can go in and look at the price.
03:49The price here says $5.99, and that matches this one over here.
03:53So you're going to want to double check that you match your item itself and your price.
03:58You can even double check when you open up the thing what the SKU code is.
04:02So in this case, here's the SKU code, 8659488, 8659488.
04:10So these are identical.
04:13And now we're going to take the link.
04:17So we're going to come over here to this blue button that says get a link.
04:20And you're going to come in and you're going to see multiple options.
04:23So there's an option one and option two.
04:25We're going to use both.
04:26For the first part, for image, though, we want to grab the option two.
04:30So we're going to get the code.
04:31It says copy it to your clipboard on your computer.
04:36And we're going to come back to our post.
04:39So we want to make sure that we have the image code toggled on.
04:42Right now this is showing you that I toggled over to photos.
04:45You can see the difference between the two.
04:47The image code will have the image code box.
04:51So we're going to enter our copied image code.
04:55And then we're going to go back to Impact and we're going to grab the tracking link.
04:59So same situation.
05:01We're going to go back in here and we're going to put the URL that we just copied
05:06from Impact into the button URL and the get it now URL section.
05:10Now these URLs are already implemented in your tracking for the image code.
05:17So you can see that part of the link is right here.
05:21You can see the product SKU, the website, things like that.
05:25This just has the image on top of it.
05:27So that's why we pulled both.
05:30So we have the first one done.
05:31We're going to go up and save the items just so that we have everything ready to go
05:36and we don't lose anything.
05:38And we're going to go walk through now what happens if you don't see a product in
05:45the Impact product catalog.
05:47So to do this we're going to start by clicking add a new item in our post.
05:51And you're going to see it looks identical to the one that's above it.
05:55So we can do everything the same at the start.
05:57We're going to go back to our document.
05:59This item is a pasta maker.
06:00So we're going to pull the pasta maker, copy the headline and the description.
06:08Put it right into the document here.
06:19And now we're going to go down to our CTA.
06:22I'm going to do buy it now.
06:23I like to change it up every now and then.
06:25So you're going to say buy it now from service line table.
06:32Okay.
06:33So we have everything kind of sorted out here.
06:35And we're going to go see if we can find this product.
06:38Now I already know that we can't find this product.
06:40I've planned it this way.
06:42But if you're going to go and let's say you open this one up, we'll do the same situation
06:47as we did before.
06:48You can take either the SKU code or you can take the title.
06:50I'm going to take the title again so you can see.
06:53Go back to impact and put it right back into the search.
07:02We'll do the same thing.
07:03We'll do, let's narrow down the brand.
07:07Okay.
07:08So here we go.
07:09These are all SRLA table products.
07:10As we go down, we can see there's a soup maker, a sauce maker, but we're not seeing
07:22a pasta maker.
07:24So it's going to load a little bit.
07:27Nope, it doesn't look like it.
07:29So if there's no more products, then what do you do?
07:31Oh, there's a few more.
07:33If there's no more products, what do you do?
07:35Well, you're going to need to go back to the product landing page.
07:39We're going to have to do a couple of things.
07:41So we're going to want to get this photo.
07:43And we've already gotten permission from these brands to be able to use the photos in
07:48the posts themselves.
07:50So I like to take the photos if they have them where it's the item in its element.
07:55So right now this is a photo of a pasta maker in the kitchen.
07:59So I'm going to use this one.
08:01Now, most cases you can right-click and save these as PNGs and JPEGs if the photo was uploaded
08:09to the website as such.
08:11Sometimes it'll say .webp, which stands for web page.
08:15And if that's the case, that is not going to pull in a photo.
08:19So you're going to need to screenshot it.
08:21So just keep an eye out for those things.
08:23When I right-click and save this image, it's already showing me that it's going to be a JPEG format.
08:28See, that's how you can tell right here if it's JPEG, PNG, or WEPB.
08:35So one thing that I want to mention is I have an affiliate marketing images folder.
08:41And I create a new folder for every article.
08:45That's why you see all of these labeled here.
08:47For this video, I've already made one.
08:49So I'm going to open this up.
08:51And I'm going to put in my item name as the name of the image here.
08:58So I want to save it into this folder.
09:00This is going to make your life so much easier when you're going throughout the rest of the video.
09:03And through the rest of the process, you're going to be able to find all of your images much more quickly than just having them on your desktop or dashboard or whatever.
09:14So we're going to type in pasta maker.
09:16And I always put where it's from so you know and can remember where the attribution of that post would be.
09:23And we save it.
09:25So now that the image is in a folder and we have everything that we almost need for the images, we need to go and grab a tracking link.
09:36So how do you do that?
09:37There's one way that's the best, I think.
09:40You can come in and click on the URL at the top of your page.
09:44So you want to take that product landing page and go back into Impact.
09:48And you can actually do it right from here on the product catalog page.
09:52So there is this little chain link icon over here on the side.
09:56And you can click on that.
09:57It'll open up to create a link.
10:00And you can search for the brand.
10:05Enter your landing page.
10:08Click create.
10:10And you have a new link right down here.
10:13So just like with the other stuff, if you click on it, it'll copy it right to your clipboard.
10:17Make sure that this says HTTPS here.
10:20So that's going to be our secure link.
10:22That's what we want.
10:24There is one other area.
10:25You can do this if you go on the home page of Impact and scroll down on the side.
10:29There is a create a link section.
10:31It's identical to what you just saw on the product page.
10:34It's the same setup.
10:35You can search for your brand.
10:38And then you can input the landing page and you'll get a tracking link available down here.
10:43So there's just two places that you can take a look at those.
10:47So we're going to go back to our affiliate marketing post now because now we have our photo and we have our tracking link.
10:53So we're going to start with uploading the photo.
10:55So you can see that we have this lovely upload image button here.
10:58And we're going to upload files.
11:02And I'm going to upload this file that we just made for the photo of the pasta maker.
11:10So here's the pasta maker.
11:11We want to make sure we add some alt text.
11:13So not only are we helping the SEO of this post, but we're also able to have people who have maybe visual impairments be able to hear what the image is and describe it for them as they get the page read aloud to them via the computer.
11:29So for the alt text, it doesn't have to be super long.
11:32It just has to be descriptive enough that somebody that cannot see it is able to understand.
11:37So in this case, we want to put pasta maker.
11:40I'm going to just do making pasta in kitchen.
11:44Okay.
11:46You could have just made that pasta maker as well, but totally up to you.
11:50Okay.
11:51So you don't need to do a description or a caption or anything.
11:54We don't need to do an attribution because we have all of those pieces already implemented in the article so far.
12:00And we need to come down here to this attach display settings.
12:03Now we want to make sure that we have a custom URL selected.
12:06You can select media file attachment page.
12:09We want to do a custom URL because that's where we're going to put our tracking link so that if somebody clicks on that photo in our article on their cell phone or their computer, that it takes them right to that page.
12:22So you're going to come in here, add the custom URL, make sure that the size is 300 by 300, and insert into the affiliate marketing template.
12:32So there you go.
12:33There's your image.
12:34We're going to come down and add the links to our URL sections.
12:40And that's going to do it.
12:42So all you need to do now is come up.
12:44We're going to save it.
12:45And then let's go and check.
12:47We'll do the preview and see how it looks.
12:50So here's the preview.
12:52There's our first item, that iPhone pop-up fidget case.
12:55There's all of the links to all of our tracking for the product.
13:01And then we have our pasta maker.
13:03It's the same situation.
13:04Images look great.
13:05All the descriptions are in there.
13:08And, yep, that's it for impact.
13:20So we're going to do it with the other parameters.
13:21We'll put it together with the other markers.
13:22There we go.
13:23And then we'll open it up and choose them.
13:24So we're going to do it.
13:25And this is what we're going to call out.
13:26So if we're going to try and make sure we're going to set them out, the way.
13:27Let's try.
13:28They've got a couple of these items.
13:29We'll go ahead and finish our agenda.
13:30We'll be going to take a couple minutes.
13:31We'll have the next tutorial.
13:32So since we're looking at this one, let's go ahead and get ready.
13:33So we're going to get a couple minutes.
13:34We'll walk through our next step.
13:35We'll have the next step back.
13:37I will do a couple minutes.